aesthetic theory postmodernism http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105557 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D033302 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Postmodernism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism An intellectual stance, mode of discourse, and philosophy defined by an attitude of skepticism toward what it considers as the grand narratives and ideologies of modernism, as well as opposition to epistemic certainty and the stability of meaning. Claims to objective fact are dismissed as naive realism. Postmodernism is characterized by self-referentiality, epistemological, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism; it rejects the "universal validity" of binary oppositions, stable identity, hierarchy, and categorization. post-modernism postmodern theory